How does that get done? There is a lot of thought and attention surrounding that effort, and some appealing ideas to combat this problem. Those ideas include a Web-based product to match smaller companies with short-term and flexible needs for office space with larger companies that have office space they can offer on a short-term basis and as commitment-free as possible.

If this succeeds, it can be a comfortable way for real estate to become available for, but not too much of a burden upon, a start-up company.

I have wondered how the brilliance of the internet will be a positive, though disruptive, force on real estate just as it is already on book publishing sales, matchmaking, and the delivery of news. This is how the internet will be such a force on real estate — and it is coming to an office near you.

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